Introduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.
Details
ISBN: 0778707954
ISBN: 0778707490
Physical Description:32 p. cm.print
Publisher:New York : Crabtree Pub., 2003.
General Note: Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: A new way of life -- Colonial women -- Other women, other lives -- Town and city women -- On a plantation -- Slave women -- Educating girls -- Courtship -- Wedding bells -- Family life -- Jobs for women -- Pastimes of women and girls -- Women's clothing -- Notable colonial women.